Research
Our research focuses on regulating innate and adaptive immune responses during inflammation, autoimmune diseases, host-pathogen interactions, vaccine development, cancer immunology and immunotherapy.
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Research overview
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is funded through a diverse range of federal, state and local research grants to study human health in the 21st century. Our research portfolio includes leading research programs in the areas of the regulation of innate and adaptive immune responses during inflammation, autoimmune diseases, bacterial and viral host-pathogen interactions, vaccine development and cancer immunology and immunotherapy.
Centered on the intersection between basic, clinical, applied and translational sciences, the discoveries of our research program are identifying solutions to infectious and noninfectious diseases.
Our research environment is highly collaborative and features projects directly benefitting from cross-disciplinary efforts and state-of-the-art approaches and technologies to solve the human health problems of today and tomorrow.